Unit 1-A2- Production schedule

Unit 1-A1-Legal Issues and Regulations

Unit 1 Legal Issues

The key media institutions which are responsible for regulating/controlling the industry that I know of are the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority), BBFC (British Board of film classification) and OFCOM (Office of Communication) who are also communiaction regulators. These three organisations make sure that the content shown/produced are decent and appropiate for the target audience (age).

Example of their works:

1. ASA Banned tv advert of a halloween menacing clown which scared children due to complaints from parents. It is their job to order the ad as it was not very pleasing.
2. BBFC banned films such as "Hate crimes" because it basically promoted terrorism, mutilation, physical and sexual abuse of a jewish family during the Nazi times.
3. Ofcom bans 'derogatory' faggot advert. This ad was banned  because it had the word "faggot" in it which was classed as being abusive.

 

BECTU (The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union)

Negotiating pay, conditions and contracts with employers

Personal advice and representation for individual members

Advice and representation on health and safety

Benefit and services for BECTU members

Training support and courses

Networking events and career development opportunities

Union journal, Stage Screen and Radio, published six times a year.

Website designed to improve access to the union's advice and support.

Clearance and Copyright

In the TV or film production it is important to consider legal issues because it is very easy to get in to trouble. For example, if you wanted to use somebody an artists music in your film, you will need to get permission (clearance) from the owners and there'd probably be a fee to pay. If you dont ask for permission then you can charged under the copyright and patent law which could mean paying a huge sum or going to prison.


An example is the case of Starwars VS. Battlestar Galactica where Galactica owners were accussed of stealing 34 sort of ideas from Starwars even ideas from starwars episodes from years ago (1977). This case ended with the disappearance of Galactica.

Unit 1: A2: Risk Assessment form

Storyboard

Unit 1 -A2 Ideas for Cast/ Cast list

For Our Casts we only need two cast as we only need one person to play a teacher and one person to play the little girl.

We have chosen Ariana to be the little girl in our film this is because we need a cast to play the character that will always be available when we need them, and she is part of our group so we will be able to make sure she knows what's going on and she will know the storyline pretty well so she wouldn't really find it difficult to play the character and if she forgets anything she would be able to improvise is well.

For the teacher we have chosen Ishaaq to play the character this is because he is very tall and was willing to be the teacher and he was comfortable with playing that role.

Unit 1- A1 Pitch Evaluation

This video shows our media pitch about the short film we will be making (Me, Ariana and Yasmin) 

I thought this was pretty easy because we combined all our ideas together as they were relatively close to each other in terms of theme and genre. So we combined all our ideas together. I'd describe that as a strength.
Another thing we did well was going in to detail with what influenced our film and target audience as well as the morals which. In order to back this up we added a video to our slide to show that the main genre is horror and there's a kid in the play which sorts of voices the age group and target audience. We also gave an insight of the equipment needed and that to me was obviously absorbed by the class as nobody had a problem with it.

However, we had feedback's about what we could have improved such as describing the cast in depth and props that we are actually going to use. We understood why that came up because we had an idea of what characters we need but because we are all not acting in it and it requires looking for someone who suits the description and is willing to do it. We will need year 7's but it will be a bit tricky or risky finding one especially because they don't know us and travelling them to the location where we will be filming.


Out of all the slides we presented we missed out making a slide on camera language and more description on sound. The reason i think this happened was because there might be changes when it come to the time we film as our group is quite ambitious.

Here is some some camera languages we could have displayed on a slide (screenshots from Abandoned a short scary film):


This is a Medium shot and this exact shot would be really effective for our short film because this boy-walks-through-the-forest scene is going to be in our film too. The medium shot shows the surroundings as well as the character in one shot which gives the audience an insight of what is going on.

This is Eye level allows the audience to put themselves in the same shoes as the character. For example, if you look at this screenshot you can see that the boy is scared which makes the audience guess and anticipate what happens next. It engages the audience. 

This is the close up which is also another type of shot that engages the audience and give the idea of how the character feels. For example, in this example i can see that the guy is looking on the floor so he's obviously quite scared or if he was to face what was about to happen .


We explained camera movements and angles that we can use and the reasons so we only lacked on shot types.

Now for Sound..

There's obviously going to be dialogue (diagetic sound). I feel like when a character speaks even just once it gives the audience more things to think about. I'd allow dialogue for the little children we might be using because it creates more empathy.

Ambient sound (non digetic) would be great when the child is walking through the forest becasue it synchronizes with everything that is happening.

OR

Contrapuntal  which i think would add to the horror; Imagine a jolly song playing whilst someones just about to be captured. Scary right?


Overall, our pitch went well as we covered most areas and the class clearly understood the plot and what is going to be happen.

Unit 1- A2- Call Sheet

DAILY FILMING SHEET

(CALL SHEET)

Date and time: Friday 8th January 2015

Location: School Playground and Gym Storyboard scene no.s: First 3 scenes Cast: Ibrahim (The paedophile/perpetrator), Ariana (Victim) and Yasmin, Camera Women and Director alongside Ariana. Props: None used yet as these scenes do not require props however technical materials such as Tripod and Camera were used. **Mats from the Gym area used to create shade and darkness, Artificial darkness in order to create the effect we were looking for, Reminders: Film the same scene from different angles so there is more variety and zoom where necessary.

Date and time: Monday 4th January 2015

Location: Science Laboratory Storyboard scene no.s: Scene 4-6 Cast: Ibrahim, The Perpetrator, Ariana the Victim, Camera Women Christiana, Yasmin, Director and some extras. Props: Science books, Science Table, Lab Coats in order to add more character, Glasses for the Perpetrator. Reminders: **After analysis, we realised that we need to re-film this scene as the zoom was deemed as unprofessional and very shaky and one of the cast members looked at the camera therefore it is necessary to do it again to ensure that the scene is suitable, this is if it still remains part of our storyline due to the fact that it we changed our script.